--- title: 'Corporate Accountant at Benchling' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/corporate-accountant-benchling-san-francisco-en2ye8fmr05k' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Corporate Accountant at Benchling - **Company:** Benchling - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/benchling/3b262872-9816-4160-b11e-c8082178943e ## Job description We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era. When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done. Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma. We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today. ## ROLE OVERVIEW The Senior Accountant will play a key part in our day-to-day accounting operations, month-end close process, and share in leading towards continuous improvement across our Accounting team. We are looking for an individual with an accounting background, good understanding of GAAP and general ledger structure, and a passion to learn. We expect this individual to focus on certain processes mainly related to personnel costs (e.g., commission & bonus, employee benefits, stock based compensation ) but have flexibility to work across various areas of Accounting. ## RESPONSIBILITIES - Financial Close and Reporting Processes - Prepare and post job-specific journal entries, taking responsibility for underlying calculations and support of varying complexity - Prepare GL Account and Financial Statement flux analyses, understanding and communicating activity and drivers for areas such as commission & bonus, stockbased compensation, & employee benefits - Prepare rollforward and reconciliation schedules for balance sheet and expense accounts, such as payroll liability, accrued & prepaid bonus, 401K liability, common stock - Assist in the preparation of financial statements, including footnote disclosures, for areas of involvement - Participate in the design, execution and continuous improvement of the overall closing task list, close calendar and team’s close performance - Systems, Policies and Processes - Assist in the development and maintenance of policies and procedures for Close and Technical Accounting areas of involvement - Collaborate on new and changing needs, questions and challenges in our systems and processes as they come up, conducting information-gathering, idea generation and solution implementation - Participate in the development of best practices, policies, and internal controls that optimize team performance and enable compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. - Other Accounting Team Responsibilities - Participate in and contribute to financial audits, including preparation of various audit schedules, collation of documents, responding to inquiries and meeting with auditors - Lead or assist with other special Finance/Accounting ad hoc projects, as needed - Collaborate cross-functionally with various teams throughout the organization including Strategic Finance, Payroll, Accounting, HR, Legal and external auditors - Ensure that all activities related to this job position are accomplished in an ethical, prudent and secure manner ## QUALIFICATIONS - BS/BA in Accounting or equivalent with a solid understanding of GAAP. - Minimum 3+ years of experience in public accounting and/or working directly in an accounting role - Experience with SaaS is strongly preferred. - Proficiency in NetSuite is strongly preferred. - Proficiency in MS Office Suite with intermediate skills in Excel including VLOOKUP, if functions, pivot tables, etc. desired - Detail-oriented with excellent time management, prioritization, and organizational skills - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to explain accounting topics in an understandable and logical manner - Team player, able to prioritize needs of others and of the team in front of their own - AI fluency preferred — comfort using AI tools (e.g., Gemini, Claude) to improve productivity, draft communications, analyze data, and streamline accounting workflows ## HOW WE WORK We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday). #LI-Hybrid #BI-Hybrid Benchling welcomes everyone. We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. ## About Benchling ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Benchling provides a cloud-based platform for biotechnology research and development, uniting data, automation, and AI to accelerate scientific discovery. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series F) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2012 - **Founders**: Sajith Wickramasekara, Ashu Singhal ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Life Sciences Software, Biotechnology R&D, Scientific Cloud Computing - **Target customers**: B2B; biopharma companies (including more than half of the world's top 50), academic labs, agritech, and industrial biotech organizations. - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To unlock the power of biotechnology" by helping scientists unite data, automation, and AI to bring new products and discoveries to life faster. ## Products & Services - **Benchling Platform (R&D Cloud)**: A unified, cloud-based platform for biotech R&D. It includes an electronic lab notebook (ELN), laboratory information management system (LIMS), and scientific data management. It allows teams to plan, record, and share experiments, automate workflows, and use AI tools. - **Benchling AI**: An integrated AI layer that includes "The AI Scientist," which connects predictive models, structured data, and wet lab execution into a single loop. It designs experiments, routes lab automation, captures results, and recommends next steps. - **Developer Platform**: An open, flexible platform with APIs, app integrations, and a custom interface designer, allowing organizations to build custom apps and connect data from instruments and other software. - **Services & Support**: Implementation, advisory, and support services from a team of experts. Also offers "Benchling Learning Labs" for team training and certification. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last reported valuation was $6.1 billion in 2021 after a Series F round). - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$412M** across 8 rounds. Annual revenue is estimated at **$50M** (per LinkedIn). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Accel, Y Combinator, and others. Customers include Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma companies. - **Growth Signals**: Over 200,000 scientists use the platform; trusted by 1,300+ organizations; 642 employees with 2.2% YoY headcount growth; active job postings (49 open roles); LinkedIn follower growth of 28.4% year-over-year. ## Competitive Advantages - **Purpose-built for biology**: Unlike generic software, Benchling is built specifically for complex life sciences R&D, modeling data for biomolecules, cell lines, and more. - **AI-native platform**: AI is embedded at every step, with "The AI Scientist" closing the loop between experiment design, execution, and data capture. - **Network effects**: Over 200,000 scientists and 1,300+ organizations use the platform, creating a strong ecosystem and data network effect. - **Deep industry penetration**: Trusted by more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma companies, providing a strong moat against competitors. - **Open and flexible**: Offers APIs, integrations, and a custom interface designer, allowing it to adapt to diverse scientific workflows. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-first R&D**: Deeply integrating AI agents and models into the scientific workflow to compress decades of R&D into years. - **Platform expansion**: Continuing to build out the "AI Scientist" capability and expanding the developer platform for custom applications. - **Customer growth**: Deepening relationships with existing enterprise customers (top 50 biopharma) while expanding into adjacent fields like agritech and industrial biotech. - **International presence**: Operating in 15 countries, including Switzerland, UK, France, Denmark, and Canada, with continued global expansion. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven work**: Employees directly contribute to accelerating breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture, and materials science. - **Culture of curiosity**: The company emphasizes a growth mindset, continuous learning, and treating mistakes as opportunities to reflect and grow. - **Strong benefits**: Includes dedicated mental health benefits (therapy sessions), monthly wellness stipend, winter holiday shutdown, and active employee resource groups (ERGs) with executive sponsorship. - **Community and connection**: Regular social hours, themed all-hands meetings, cross-functional events, and a strong emphasis on building community both in-person and virtually. - **Hybrid/Office policy**: Has offices in multiple locations (San Francisco, and international offices in Switzerland, UK, France, Denmark, Canada) with in-person social hours and team events. - **Engineering culture**: Nearly half the team comes from an R&D background, blending scientific and technological expertise. Open roles include Software Engineer (Agents, Developer Platform), Engineering Leader (Molecular Biology, Infrastructure), and more. ## Sources 1. [benchling.com](https://www.benchling.com/) 2. [benchling.com/about-us](https://www.benchling.com/about-us) 3. [benchling.com/careers](https://www.benchling.com/careers) 4. [benchling.com/life-at-benchling](https://www.benchling.com/life-at-benchling) 5. 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